Matt Zhang is the Founder and Managing Partner of Hivemind, a Web3 and blockchain technology focused investment firm, which he founded in November 2021. From September 2007 to November 2021, Mr. Zhang was the global Head of Structured Products Trading at Citi, the leading global investment bank. He also created Citi’s Spread Products Investment Technologies team (SPRINT), focusing on venture equity investments in the FinTech sector, and was a founding partner of the Citi Impact Fund, which invests in companies addressing social challenges. Mr. Zhang holds an MST in Real Estate from the University of Cambridge and a BS in Economics from the London School of Economics. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA).
Ms. Griffith is a senior executive with more than two decades of strategic leadership experience across diverse industries, including technology, financial services, consumer goods, food manufacturing, aerospace, and education. Since 2024, she has served as Vice President of Government Relations at CGI, one of the world’s largest IT and business consulting firms, where she leads the company’s government relations strategy and engagement with public sector stakeholders. From 2023 to 2024, Ms. Griffith served as Head of Government Relations & External Affairs for McCain Foods – North America, where she directed public affairs and external communications across the United States and Canada. From 2021to 2023, she was Group Director for the North America Operating Unit at The Coca-Cola Company, overseeing public affairs, sustainability, and communications in Canada and the Northeastern United States. From 2019 to 2021, Ms. Griffith served as Senior Vice President of State & Local Government Relations at Wells Fargo, managing legislative strategy and stakeholder engagement across multiple states. From 2008 to 2019, she led government relations for the Eastern U.S. States at TIAA-CREFF. From 2021 to 2023, she was the former Chair of the Canadian Beverage Association, where she provided strategic leadership on industry-wide policy and advocacy initiatives. Ms. Griffith holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Gwynedd-Mercy College.
Elaine Goldwater is an executive in the Bio-Pharmaceutical Industry. She is the Senior Director of Marketing, Endocrinology at Recordati Rare Diseases. Offering 20 plus years of experience creating and launching complex global marketing strategies in the competitive pharmaceutical industry, she offers a talent for guiding informed decision-making, leading strategic planning and strategic operations, and delivering double-digit growth and transform across high-value product portfolios. Most recently driving her business unit to over 50% growth in 6- months.
Her expertise includes deep knowledge of the product lifecycle from pre-clinical/early-stage development through launch, loss of exclusivity (LOE), line-extension, and late lifecycle products. In addition, Elaine’s mastery of country and global operations is leveraged with a background in building market archetypes, shared best practices, and profitable strategy and execution models. She drives end to end commercial strategy creation and execution through a collaborative cross functional process that delivers above brand performance driving to growing net revenue and ensuring patient access. She has brought this strategic expertise into strategy development and into market execution driving double digit growth and across multiple disease categories from Cushing Disease, Acromegaly, Infectious Disease (antibiotic, anti-fungal, HIV, HPC); Contraception, hematology, oncology, respiratory, diabetes and urology. Additionally, Elaine has expertise in orphan drug and rare disease filing, launching, and marketing execution.
She is especially adept at motivating and uniting cross-functional headquarter global and country teams toward common goals. By gathering input from internal and external customers and engaging with scientific leader, HCPs, Patients, patient advocacy, and payors, she innovates solutions, shape and articulate our vision, and generate buy-in across an enterprise. From August 2019-August 2022, Ms. Goldwater was a Director of Global Marketing for Merck & Co., Inc. (across two product lines), and from December 2022 to present, she has been a USA Marketing, Senior Director of Marketing for Endocrinology for Recordati Rare Diseases, Inc. The Board and Company believe that Ms. Goldwater is qualified to serve as a Director due to her long term experience as a high level marketing executive.
Mr. Levychin is a partner at Galleros Robinson, a premier certified public accounting firm, in the Commercial Audit and Assurance practice, where he brings over 25 years of experience working with both privately owned and public entities. He has written articles on a wide range of topics, which have been featured in several periodicals including Dollars and Sense, New York Enterprise Report, Black Enterprise Magazine, Forbes, Business Insider, and The Network Journal. He has also conducted seminars on a wide range of business topics including SEC matters and taxation for several organizations including the Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference, the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (New York chapter) and the Learning Annex. Mr. Levychin is a member of several organizations including the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, the National Association of Tax Professionals, and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). He was a founding member of the AICPA’s National Diversity and Inclusion Commission. He is also a member and a former board member of the New York Chapter of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (“EO”). He received the 5 Chamber Alliance MWBE Award from the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, the Arthur Ashe Leadership Award, the Baruch College Alumni Association’s “Alumni Leadership Award for Business,” and was recognized as Best Accountant by The New York Enterprise Report. Richard is a graduate of Baruch College, where he received a Bachelors in Business Administration Degree (Accounting).
Mr. Welch, who has served as a member of the board since 2019, is the founding partner at D|R Enso Law, L.L.P., a law firm in Los Angeles, California. He has a broad base of experience representing clients in areas of litigation, corporate governance and financing, intellectual property and regulatory advisement, and defense. Mr. Welch also focuses on complex commercial transactions and finance. Mr. Welch obtained his Juris Doctorate degree from Loyola Law School and received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from California State University, Fullerton. He is a member of the Los Angeles County and American Bar Associations.
Mr. Meekison, who has served as a member of the board since 2019, has spent the last 15 years serving in a variety of executive management and CFO roles with both private and public companies, currently as the CFO and Director of Exro Technologies Inc., a technology company that creates energy management systems; and CFO of ArcWest Exploration Inc., a mining exploration company in British Columbia. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Telo Genomics Corp. and Adven Inc. Prior to his position at Exro Technologies Inc., Mr. Meekison spent 15 years in corporate finance with a focus on raising equity capital for North American technology companies, including nine years at Haywood Securities Inc. Mr. Meekison received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia and is a Chartered Professional Accountant, Professional Logistician and Certified Investment Manager.
Matt Zhang is the Founder and Managing Partner of Hivemind, a Web3 and blockchain technology focused investment firm, which he founded in November 2021. From September 2007 to November 2021, Mr. Zhang was the global Head of Structured Products Trading at Citi, the leading global investment bank. He also created Citi’s Spread Products Investment Technologies team (SPRINT), focusing on venture equity investments in the FinTech sector, and was a founding partner of the Citi Impact Fund, which invests in companies addressing social challenges. Mr. Zhang holds an MST in Real Estate from the University of Cambridge and a BS in Economics from the London School of Economics. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA).
Young Cho has served as Chief Executive Officer and Director of TLGY Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: TLGY) since December 2024 and Chief Executive Officer of StablecoinX, an Ethena backed digital asset treasury company, since June 2025. He has spent the past 8 years in the digital asset industry, serving as CFO at Hedera Hashgraph, a proof-of-stake public network powered by hashgraph consensus, where he served from April 2021 to August 2022, and CIO at Abra, a digital consumer wallet where users can buy, sell, and earn rewards on their cryptocurrency holdings, from April 2020 to April 2021 where he started the Earn product in 2020. Before he entered the crypto industry, he spent over 12 years in traditional finance. He was at Citigroup for 10 years as a director in the Special Situations Group, and at UBS for 2 years as an executive director in the Private Finance and Credit Trading team. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and has a BS from Cornell and MPA from Columbia.
Xiao-Xiao J. Zhu has served as Digital Operating Partner at KKR since April 2021 where he leads technology-driven value creation, innovation and digital transformation at the board and top management level of European private equity portfolio companies such as Axel Springer, GfK and Roompot Landal. He also leads KKR’s global Digital Assets & Blockchain strategy, for which he led investments in foremost Crypto VCs such as Dragonfly Capital, Ethereal Ventures or ParaFi as well as Digital Assets companies such as Anchorage Digital. He is a regular speaker at key Digital Assets & AI conferences such as Token2049 Dubai, Blockworks Digital Assets Summit, Financial Times Crypto Summit, Proof of Talk Paris, Out East Summit, AI Rush, London Tech Week or London City Week, and is an angel investor in fast growing early stage technology companies such as Fuse Energy (founded by ex-Revolut Chief Revenue Officer) or Anagram (founded by Solana Foundation President and ex-Polychain Capital President). Prior to joining KKR, he worked at BCG from January 2014 until April 2021. He was General Manager at BCG Digital Ventures in London and Beijing from 2016 to 2021. During this time, he founded, launched, and scaled new digital companies such as Heycar.co.uk (backed by Volkswagen & Daimler) and Tracr.com (backed by DeBeers). He began his career in management consulting advising Fortune 500 companies at the Boston Consulting Group in London. Notably, in an earlier life, he performed as a professional concert pianist on some of the world’s most prestigious concert venues including the Berlin Philharmonie, and played for global leaders such as George H.W. Bush, Helmut Kohl or Mikhail Gorbachev. He holds a MSc in Managerial Economics & Strategy from the London School of Economics, a BA in Philosophy & Economics from the Humboldt University Berlin, and a Masters in Concert Piano from the Berlin University of Arts.
Dan Mendes has been Managing Partner of BlockCore Partners, a specialized advisory firm offering financial and tax services tailored to the blockchain and digital asset space, since April 2023. From May 2021 to April 2023, he served as Head of Finance at Algorand Technologies, a Layer-1 blockchain technology company. From September 2018 to May 2021, Mr. Mendes worked at Deloitte, a global professional services firm, most recently as a Senior Manager from August 2019 to May 2021. While at Deloitte, Mr. Mendes advised on multinational corporate restructurings, spin-offs, IPOs, mergers, acquisitions, and private equity transactions, including several years in Deloitte’s Washington National Tax group, with the latter half of his tenure focused on blockchain and digital asset related matters. Mr. Mendes is a licensed CPA in Florida and Washington, D.C., holds a B.B.A. in International Business and Accounting from Temple University, an Executive M.S.T. in Taxation from Florida Atlantic University, and completed the Executive Program in Finance at Columbia Business School. Mr. Mendes has extensive experience in corporate governance, risk management, and capital allocation strategies. He is recognized for his expertise in designing and overseeing treasury management frameworks, including the management of company digital asset treasuries, with a focus on optimizing tax efficiency, liquidity, and long-term shareholder value. His leadership is marked by a strong ability to bridge regulatory compliance with strategic growth, making him a valuable contributor to public company boards navigating emerging financial technologies and evolving governance expectations.
Ms. Griffith currently serves as State & Local Government Relations Senior Leader for the Northeast Region of Wells Fargo & Company, a multinational financial services firm with approximately $1.9 trillion in assets. In this role, she leads Wells Fargo’s legislative and political engagements and manages relationships with a state and local policymakers, as well as community stakeholders. Previously, she served as Regional Vice President, Government Relations for TIAA-CREF, a leading provider of financial services with over $1.3 trillion in assets under management, where she led government relations for the Eastern United States. Prior to that, she held senior roles in the aerospace, high tech, education, private and public sectors, including Drexel University, Morris and Partners, and Lockheed Martin Corporation. She has also managed multiple high-profile political campaigns at the local, state and national level. Ms. Griffith holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Gwynedd-Mercy College.
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